Improving Literacy Achievement through a Constructivist Approach: The KEEP Demonstration Classroom Project

Elementary School Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 203-221

  Au, Kathryn H ^b   Carroll, Jacquelin H ^a  

^a Cultural Learning Center at Ka'ala   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0000465718     PISSN: 00135984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/461862     Document Type: Article

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